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CRUNCH TIME

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Well my week alone is almost done here at the Vicarage. In just four days I will be getting ready to pick up Amanda from Boston Logan airport, as she returns from Peru via Myrtle Beach (where she has stopped to visit her mother and grandparents for a few days). She flies in at 6:30 P.M..

Two hours later Brenda and her dog will be flying in. Our cousin Dan is picking them up. Depending on what time the dog gets through customs they may stay in Boston overnight and come home early on Thursday morning.

That means it is crunch time here at The Vicarage. I have been. cleaning all week. Brenda’s room is almost ready. But today my son and daughter-in-law are coming to help me do some more cleaning. We have boxes to move up into Brenda’s room and some sweeping and cleaning in the bathrooms to do. There are still some things I need to take care of in the office as well as we head into church tomorrow

AND I NEED TO GO GROCERY SHOPPING!!!!

SOME MORE PERU

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Amanda called me this morning from Peru, to check in. She is well. Her oxygen level is holding steady. She is finding the country side beautiful and she is enjoying the ministry opportunity.

Today her team headed higher into the mountains to minister in a village about 2 hours from Cusco.

PERU AND THE HOME FRONT

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My daughter, Amanda, is currently in Cusco Peru with a missions team of other pastors from our network of churches.

She just finished the first cycle of her latest cancer treatment regimen on Friday. She was good up until this last week when a reaction to the treatment caused her to develop a lung infection. Her doctors placed her on antibiotics and told her that if she was not better by Saturday she could not go on the trip. We called our prayer circles and by Saturday she was feeling well enough to go. Sunday she took the five hour drive down to JFK International airport to catch her flight to South America.

Here are some pictures and a testimony from her that arrived today.

“Made it to Cusco:)”

“Praise report! I’m still sick but I have the best O2 of the entire group and am one of the only ones who don’t need oxygen this morning!”

Because of the location of Cusco, high in the Andes Mountains elevation sickness is a real concern and so Amanda had to take a medication beforehand along with her antibiotics to contend with it. Praise God! It worked!

While she is busy doing missions work, I am holding down the fort here at the Vicarage. This morning I walked and fed the dogs, fed the chickens and spent some time with Amanda’s cat Bacari who is greatly confused by the change in routine around here.

Our indoor garden is springing to life. The peppers are sprouting, and the broccoli is up. Melanie, James and I are going to try the broccoli and a few other early veggies in covered beds.

Amanda will be home on March 26th. For those of you keeping track that is the same day that Brenda and her dog Daisy arrive.